One of the persistent controversies that surfaces in the media about AIDS is whether the heterosexual population is at risk. The latest projections provide an emphatic affirmative.
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Anderson, R. AIDS: trends, predictions, controversy. Nature 363, 393–394 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/363393a0
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